On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, John Lagrue wrote: > This has been raised before but I have a bad problem with OO on FC3. I > start it...the banner appears and the blue progress bar quickly goes > across to 100% - and then nothing happens for at least 5 minutes. > > Nothing to do with swapping or CPU. The CPU load falls to zero, disc > activity ceases.....but no window appears for absolutely ages. The > system doesn't hang up, because all other activities can continue; > browsing, email etc. > > This is on an Celeron M320 with 256Mb, 20Gb and 490Mb swap space. > > Any ideas? check your disk I/O speed. OO takes quite a hit on the disk to load. My laptop (Inspiron 8200) has obtained a really low disk I/O speed, as checked with the command hdparm -t /dev/hda of about 3-10 MB/sec (erratic). Previously I had found out that it was a bad interaction between the cd-automounter (magicdev for gnome on previous versions of redhat), but i'm now also getting this I/O rate on the console. I didn't see anything wrong with the DMA setting, though should doublecheck. That kind of bug of not setting it correctly is from the long past. So, basically I have the same problem (perhaps not as much as 5 minutes though), but I don't know how to get my disk back to full speed (in my case rh9 gives me 27MB/sec). - peter
